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scarce, they were overlooked in describing the genus. Hamp- 

 son makes Eupolia a synonym of Namangana; and licentiosa, 

 which was known to him only by a figure of the male type, is 

 in the catalogue next to an Indian species, but in a different 

 section of the genus from alfkenii, the sections being separated 

 on antennal structure. 



A New Polyctenid. 



By V. L. KELLOGG and J. H. PAINE, Stanford University, 



California. 



(Plate XII) 



The curious bat-infesting, wingless, insect parasites of 

 the genus Polyctenes as originally described by Giglioli in 

 1864 were assigned by their discoverer to the Dipterous fam- 

 ily Nycteribiidse, but their sucking beak and incomplete meta- 

 morphosis align them with the Hemiptera, as indicated in 

 1874 by Westwood. In 1879 Waterhouse added, quite 

 wrongly, a new winged genus to the group and decided, main- 

 lv on the strength of his addition, that the family was nearly 

 allied to the Hippoboscidse. In 1906 Kirkaldy, in a paper 

 in the Canadian Entomologist (Vol. 38, p. 375) includes the 

 following reference. (This paper is a list of emendations to 

 the authors previous "List of the Genera of the Pagiopodous 

 Hemiptera Heteroptera," Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 32, pp. 

 117-156, 1906). 



' . . Family . . Polyctenidae. 



"Genus I. Polyctenes, Giglioli, 1864. Q. Journ. Micr. Sci., IV. 25, 



type mofassHS. Gigl., PI. lb.. Figs. 13-14. 

 "Genus 2. Euroctenes, gen. nov.. type lyrae (C. O. Watcrh., 1879. 



T. E. S. London, PI. TX, Figs. 1-2). 

 "Genus 3. Eoctenes, gen. nov., type spasniac (C. O. \V., op. c., 



Figs. 3-4). 

 "Genus 4. Hespcroctenes. gen. nov., type fuinarins (Wcstw. 



1874, Thesaurus- Ent. Oxon., PI. 38}." 



"The characters of these four genera have been indicated 

 by variou-s authors, but only one, Polyctenes, has been named : 



